Mort Kondrake's solution to GOP's woes: fire conservative talk show hosts. [View All]

[DCBob]

First Steps to GOP Recovery By Mort Kondracke

How can the Republican Party rebound? The first step would be to quit letting Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham set its agenda.......... Step One is to fire Rush Limbaugh and his ilk as the intellectual bosses of the GOP. They shouldn't be muzzled, as some liberals want to do by reviving the "fairness doctrine" in broadcasting, just ignored more frequently. In recent years, Republicans have let right-wing talk show hosts whip the GOP base into frenzies -- over immigration, brain-damage victim Terry Schiavo and same-sex marriage -- that have branded the party as troglodyte. The result is that the demographic groups representing the future of American politics shifted decisively to the Democratic Party in 2008 -- Latinos, young people, the well-educated, moderates, working women, first-time voters, suburbanites and "seculars." As former White House political guru Karl Rove observed last week, "the GOP will find it hard to regain the majority" if it keeps losing Latinos.

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I think Morty Mort is actually right. Those wacko talk show hosts are so off-the-wall many do not them seriously and it reflects negatively on the GOP in general. But these talk show hosts are immensely popular with their listeners and make millions from advertisements and conservative product sales. They are not going anywhere because the mighty dollar dominates. The Republicans are so screwn!